CodePipeline CloudFormation Template configuration

Question

I'm trying to use the CloudFormation Template configuration field in a CodePipeline. If you edit the CloudFormation in CodePipeline it looks like this:

If my InputArtifactName is MyAppBuild and I have a CloudFormation config file in cfg-prd.json, my hope was I could enter MyAppBuild::cfg-prd.json and have it pick it up.

I get an error about the template file not being valid even though it works manually as:

--parameters cfg-prd.json

Answer 1

Note that the Template Configuration File has a different JSON structure than the format accepted by the --parameters option to aws cloudformation create-stack:

{
  "Parameters" : {
    "NameOfTemplateParameter" : "ValueOfParameter",
    ...
  },
  "StackPolicy" : {
    "Statement" : [
      StackPolicyStatement
    ]
  }
}